US DOJ admits that Stingrays can be used to intercept call and SMS content

02

Nov

2015

After a battling the US Department of Justice in a court for two and a half years, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has emerged victorious and has been given access to documents that spell out the details about the US federal government’s use of Stingrays surveillance devices.

“For years, the government has shrouded in secrecy its use of StingRays, also called ‘cell site simulators’,” Linda Lye, staff attorney at ACLU North California, noted in a blog post.